Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

Professor Lars Schmitz spoke with Wired about the wide variety of shapes and forms that animal eyes take and the reasons for ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. A 2007 study even presented strong evidence supporting this idea. But new research is turning that ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

THE PARK CLOSED ONE OF ANIMAL KINGDOM’S ORIGINAL SHOWS SO THEY CAN MAKE WAY FOR A NEW ONE. YESTERDAY WAS THE FINAL DAY FOR IT’S TOUGH TO BE A BUG. THE 3D SHOW INSIDE THE TREE OF LIFE WAS BASED ...